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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Boxing: Gold medals are awarded in light flyweight, bantamweight, lightweight, welterweight , middleweight and heavyweight.
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But ex-light welterweight champ Terry is worried about his brother's children.
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De La Hoya, 26, has won world titles in three divisions: lightweight, light-welter and welterweight .
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He even boxed as a welterweight until his hands became too mangled to keep fighting.
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In the co-feature, former world champion Pernell Whitaker won a unanimous decision over Andrei Pestriaev in a welterweight bout.
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The 25-year-old Dublin soldier had been virtually written off in the welterweight division.